Prof. Dr. Christian Dorsch

Monographs

Dorsch, C. (2022): Maturity and Digitality: e-portfolio work in geographical teacher education. Praxis Neue Kulturgeographie vol. 16. Münster.

Editorship

Co-editor of  OpenSpaces-Journal for Didactics of Geography

Journal articles

Dorsch, C., Schäfer, L., Kanwischer, D. (2025): Garbage in, gospel out? A contribution to the discussion on the relationship between tasks and learning analytics in geographical education. OpenSpaces, special issue: How(so)? Geographical education processes in the age of digitality, p. 46 - 59. doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/83359

Dorsch, C. (2024): 'Digitality For Future'? - The Potential of Digital Practices for Transformative Education in the Area of Climate Change. GI_Forum 12, p. 1 - 15. doi.org/10.1553/giscience2024_01

McLean, P., Krösche, H. & Dorsch, C. (2024): Conceptions of time and crisis under the conditions of the Anthropocene. Reflections on historical-political education in the context of social upheaval. Journal of History Didactics 23(1), pp. 28 - 43.  https://doi.org/10.13109/zfgd.2024.23.1.28

Kanwischer, D., Schulze, U. & Dorsch, C. (2023): Excursions - digital, open, political! In: GW-Unterricht, 171. p. 5 - 17.  link

Dorsch, C., Ganswind, F., Nöthen, E. & Pettig, F. (2023): Making a difference together. Planning, implementing and reflecting on teaching projects for sustainable school development in the sense of a whole school approach. Practice Geography 46(5), pp. 10 - 15.

Dorsch, C., Fuchs, L. & D. Kanwischer (2021): Unpredictable? Algorithm cultures and their spatial implications together with some remarks on geographical education. GW Unterricht 163(3/2021), p. 5 - 21.  link

Fuchs, L., Kanwischer, D. & Dorsch, C. (2021): Algorithmic Cultures: A Missing Link of Spatial Citizenship Education. In: GI_Forum, Journal for Geographic Information Science. 2/2021, pp. 54 - 64.  link

Dorsch, C. & Kanwischer, D. (2020): Maturity in a culture of digitality - Geographical education and "Spatial Citizenship. In: Journal for Didactics of the Social Sciences (zdg) 2/2020, p. 23 - 40. (Second publication in: Bork-Hüffer, T. & A. Strüver (eds.): Digital Geographies. Introductions to socio-material-technological spatial productions (Basistexte Geographie, Vol. 3). Stuttgart. pp. 151 - 166)  Link

Dorsch, C. & Kanwischer, D. (2019): Maturity-oriented education in geographical teacher education. On the potential of e-portfolios. In: Journal for Geography Didactics Vol. 47 No. 3, pp. 98 - 116.  link

Kaup, N., Meßner, M. T., Schröder, L.-M., McLean, P., Jehle, M., Dorsch, C. & Wolff, O. (2018): "What will become of the old school in Hausen?" - A simulation game to promote maturity in interdisciplinary lessons. In: GW-Unterricht 148 (4/2017), p. 66 - 76.  link

Dorsch, C. (2018): Reflecting on the smart city: How student teachers learn to teach smart pupils. In: GI_Forum Volume 6, Issue 2, p. 168 - 180.  link

Kaup, N. & Dorsch, C. (2017): Mündigkeit und ihre Vermittlung in der mediatisierten Gesellschaft - Potenziale ethnografischer Schulforschung am Beispiel Geographie. In: MEDIENIMPULSE (2/2017): Digital basic education.  link

Grünberg, N. & Dorsch, C. (2016): Smart pupils in the smart city? On the significance and adaptation of a future concept in textbooks. In: GW-Unterricht 142/143 (2-3/2016), p. 28 - 39.  link

Articles in edited volumes and conference proceedings

Dorsch, C. (2023): "Customers like you also bought..." - Identity constructions through algorithms In: Pettig, F. & Gryl, I.: Geographical education in digital cultures. Perspectives for research and teaching. Heidelberg. S. 291-298.  link

Kanwischer, D. & Dorsch, C. (2023): Maturity as a guiding value of geographical education in a culture of digitality. In: Pettig, F. & Gryl, I.: Geographical education in digital cultures. Perspectives for research and teaching. Heidelberg. S. 139-147.  link

Mittrach, S., Dorsch, C. & Eberth, A. (2023): Urban cultures of digitality as an educational occasion - A geography didactic seminar concept on the topic of "Smart City". In: Pettig, F. & Gryl, I.: Geographical education in digital cultures. Perspectives for research and teaching. Heidelberg. S. 267-275.  link

Dorsch, C. & Mittrach, S. (2023): Maturity-oriented education. Smart cities as an example of the digital transformation of cities. In: Gryl, I., Lehner, M., Fleischhauer, T. & Hoffmann, K. W.: Geographiedidaktik. Heidelberg. S. 391 - 400.  link

Reithmeier, C. & C. Dorsch, C. (2021): Social media. In: Bork-Hüffer, T. Füller, H., Straube, T. (Eds.): Handbook of Digital Geographies: World - Knowledge - Tools. Stuttgart. S. 231 - 243.

Gryl, I., Dorsch, C., Lehner, M., Pokraka, J. & Zimmer, J. (2020): Technology, media, maturity: integrating autonomy-promoting attitudes and competencies into subject-specific teaching. In: Beißwenger, M., Bulizek, B., Gryl, I. & Schacht, F. (eds.): Digital innovations and competences in teacher training. Duisburg, pp. 121 - 146.  link

Dorsch, C. (2020): Facing digital change with maturity - portfolio work in geographical teacher education. In: Hemmer, M., Lindau,A,-K., Peter, C., Rawohl, M., & G. Schrüfer (eds.): Lehrerprofessionalität und Lehrerbildung im Fach Geographie im Fokus von Theorie, Empirie und Praxis. Geographiedidaktische Forschungen. No. 72. p. 277 - 289  Link

Jehle, M., McLean, P., Dorsch, C. & Messner, M.T. (2020): Performative facets of perspective-taking and judgment formation in social science and history lessons. Video-based analyses of a simulation game. In: Schmidt-Thieme, B., Hauenschild, K., Schütte, U., Wolff, D. (Eds.): Qualitative Video Analysis in School and Teaching. Proceedings of the 3rd Hildesheim CeLeB Conference on Educational Research, Weinheim, pp. 126-138.

Dorsch, C., Kaup, N. & Kanwischer, D. (2018): Mündigkeit in cross-phase geographical teacher education - empty formula or teaching formula? In: Dickel, M., Keßler, L., Pettig, F. & F. Reinhardt (eds.): Marking and crossing boundaries - Positioning in the broad field of geography didactics. Geographiedidaktische Forschungen. No. 69, pp. 48 - 60.  link

Dorsch, C., Grünberg, N., Kanwischer, D. & Wolff, O. (2016): Maturity and teacher education in a cross-curricular and cross-phase perspective. A curricular case analysis of the subjects geography, history and politics/economics. In: Budke, A. & M. Kuckuck (eds.): Political education in geography lessons. Stuttgart. S. 177 - 186.  link

Other publications

Dorsch, C. Gryl, I. Hermes, A., Jekel, T., Lehner, M. Meyer, C. Pettig, F. Pokraka, J. Schrüfer, G., Schulze, U. (2020): The contribution of geography as a subject to education in a world shaped by digitalization and mediatization. Position paper of the Hochschulverband für Geographiedidaktik (HGD) e.V. adopted on 02.10.2020 by the general meeting of the HGD.  Link

Current Projects

International Alumni Training Seminar DigEdu - Training Digital technologies in environmental education
In an eight-day seminar in Nairobi organized by the Geography Didactics working group at Osnabrück University in cooperation with Goethe University Frankfurt and Kenyatta University Nairobi, African alumni of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) learn about various ways of using eLearning technologies to better understand and deal with climate change and the biodiversity crisis. The main methods used are e-portfolios, AI (Artificial Intelligence), VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). With the help of these techniques, participants will develop their own concepts for making university teaching more accessible to climate and sustainability issues and their solutions and generating greater added value for students. Following the seminar, the group will travel on to the eLearning Africa Conference in Rwanda. There, the alumni will organize their own workshop in which they will present the digital tools with practical application examples. An important step for the success of the seminar: The seminar participants have become multipliers for the digital technologies, which are intended to improve university teaching in the long term. The aim is for them to continue this work at their own universities.
Funding: DAAD
Duration: October 2023 - July 2024
Function: Application and project management

Completed projects

 Freedom in transition? Intergenerational Dialogue on Planetary Boundaries and Responsibility (SHIFT)
Duration: 04 - 11 2024
Funding: BMBF
Function: Co-application and project management

 Environmental and remote sensing data analysis using digital geotechnologies in research and teaching (GeoTraining)
Duration: 01/2022 - 12/2024
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Cooperation: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Role: Lead applicant and coordinator

 The Next Level: Networked development of teacher training
Duration: 01/2019 - 08/2022
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Function: Coordination of the social science and history subject network

Climate & Biodiversity Lab (CLaB)
Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2023
Funding: Partnership funding as part of the  DigiTeLL project
Function: Application and coordination

Geographie Lernen digital (GeoDig)
Duration: 03/2020 - 12/2020
Funding: Goethe University Frankfurt
Function: Lead application and coordination

Barrier-free videos for geomedia education (BaViGeo)
Duration: 01/2020 - 12/2020
Funding: Hessian Ministry of Science and Art
Function: Co-application and coordination

#GeoLernen - Digitale Geomedien in der studiengangs- und hochschulübergreifenden Lehre
Duration: 03/2020- 12/2020
Funding: Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Cooperation: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Function: Lead application and coordination

 Developing networked teacher training (LEVEL)
Duration: 07/2015 - 12/2018
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Function: Member of the social science-history subject network

Reviewer for "GW-Unterricht"

Reviewer for "Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik (ZGD)"